Tapestries Of Light

I invite you to sign up and join me for one or more of these fun jewelry making workshops. I don't have evening classes, but I do work weekends. All workshops are held in my home studio in Phoenix, AZ. We will be offering our beginning 3-week workshops for Viking Knit chain and Kumihimo for $95 for each 3-week workshop.

New but old! You may not be familiar with this ancient Japanese braiding technique that was and still is fiber based. Today, Kumihimo is made round as well as flat and beads are added to the projects creating amazing textured jewelry pieces. Kumihimo is made on a loom called a Marudai, traditionally made of wood and sits 16" or 24" off the floor.

I had to think about a question like this. Art has been, of course, a lifelong evolution for me that I can only relate by telling my story. My first personal "art" was music. It is all about creative declaration, emotion, sensation, expression and exhilaration. I recently read that "one of the only activities that stimulates and uses the entire brain is Music" - singing, playing or listening to music.

Ann Turpin Thayer created The Fine Art of Wire Wrapped Jewelry - The Thayer Method and has taught it since 2004. Ann has now designed a jewelry workshop program especially for DMC and area resorts for their convention guests. No jewelry making experience required. You can offer guest entertainment that will be talked about long after the trip is over!

I recently took a two-year sabbatical to explore new directions in my wire work. This marks the 25th Annual Show, it will be my 13th season with them. I am coming back with a partner and collaborator, Suzanne Brown. I met Suzanne in 2003 at Celebration of Fine Art where she kept asking to take classes from me.